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France weighs state of emergency as riots spread for second day
Paris saw fresh clashes on Sunday as protests over the cost of living entered a second day. French daily L’Opinion reports that Macron and his ministers are weighing a state of emergency and a curfew, while Trump and Vance blamed immigration for the unrest.
Ally Daily Editorial DeskUpdated:
A state of emergency is on the table in France as violent protests over the cost of living rolled into a second day on Sunday. According to the daily L’Opinion, President Emmanuel Macron and his ministers are considering emergency rule and a curfew, though no decision has been announced.
Macron was set to meet ministers at 5:30 p.m. and address the nation at 8 p.m. Meanwhile, protesters returned to the streets of Paris, where riot police fired tear gas to break up the crowds.
Barricades and fireworks in Paris
At Place de la République, officers moved in on protesters trying to put up a barricade.
Elsewhere, demonstrators set rows of bicycles alight.
The burning bikes were dragged together with trash bins to form a flaming barricade facing police lines.
Some protesters launched fireworks directly at officers as the clashes flared again in the afternoon.
Washington weighs in
President Donald Trump framed the unrest as a migration crisis. “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Vice President JD Vance posted footage of the Limoges town hall fire and argued that Western liberals had “imported the Third World” into France in the name of diversity and compassion while ignoring questions of assimilation. French officials, by contrast, have pointed to the far left and to grievances over prices, schools and public services.
Some marchers in Paris carried Palestinian flags.
Looting from Marseille to Paris
In Marseille, a Hermès boutique was ransacked on Saturday.
Security footage captured looters stripping a jewelry store.
One looter made headlines for a different reason: after taking a vacuum cleaner from a shop, he started sweeping the street with it.
Lyon mayor under fire
In Lyon, residents booed Mayor Grégory Doucet as he gave a public statement on the violence.
“Look at the disgrace you’ve caused. Are you proud? You should be ashamed and resign,” a shop owner guarding his store told him.
A heavy toll
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said police had arrested more than 1,800 people nationwide, while provisional figures show more than 500 police, gendarmes and firefighters injured. About 1,500 shops were damaged, Paris recorded 855 detentions, and the 1873 town hall in Limoges was set on fire.
A demonstrator died of cardiorespiratory arrest, and a teenager in Saint-Étienne lost a hand to a police stun grenade. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu moved a crisis meeting to Monday, and the Greens called for Nuñez to step down.
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